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CaliforniaSpotlight: New Mission Boost and Discovery Boost Grants
Published on: January 23, 2025
In the Fall 2024 grant cycle, American Cancer Society invests more than $12 million in new exploratory and translational grants.
One Day, Prep for Stem Cell Transplants May Be at Home
Published on: March 30, 2023
ACS grantee, Wei Gao, PhD, tests a sweat sensor to see if it quickly IDs a personalized dose for 2 chemotherapy drugs that AML patients receive before a stem cell transplant.
Like On-the-Skin Labs, Sweat Sensors Assess Biomarkers
Published on: February 10, 2023
Wei Gao, PhD, an ACS grantee uses the Internet of Everything to design compact, all-in sweat sensors to collect live data continuously, painlessly—and eventually, at home.
Helping Cancer Researchers Jump the Last Hurdles Before Clinical Trials
Published on: February 3, 2020
The American Cancer Society Mission Boost grant helps rescue science that sometimes falls into the valley of death, where promising research comes to an abrupt end because it otherwise can’t get the funding it needs to cross the bridge between discovery and helping patients.
